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Nicole Callahan

Nicole Callahan

Nicole Callahan is the TOMS Core Faculty Fellow in Contemporary Civilization and a Core Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her research focuses on composition pedagogies and the history of the essay. She received her PhD in English Education from Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2017. icon

“To Examine Society and Try to Change It”

By Nicole Callahan

I take a seat near the middle of the table at 6:06 p.m. The room soon fills, students clutching coffee, shedding coats; someone brings gummy worms and sends them ...

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Virtual Roundtable on Engaged Scholarship and Teaching

By Nicole Gervasio, Emily Hainze, Joss Greene, & Nicole Callahan

With political divisiveness and gaps in access to higher education intensifying, the imperative for universities to interact meaningfully with local and global communities has perhaps never been greater ...

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